Biographical studies, ed. by R.H. Hutton1881 |
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... once placed on a level with the highest in the land — in matters of expenditure , and in those countless social relations which depend upon expenditure - men sprung from the body of the people , unmistakably speaking its language ...
... once placed on a level with the highest in the land — in matters of expenditure , and in those countless social relations which depend upon expenditure - men sprung from the body of the people , unmistakably speaking its language ...
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... once the power of the Protestant interest , the shibboleth by which squires and rectors distinguished those whom they loved from those whom they hated ; we forget that he defended the Manchester Massacre , the Six Acts , the Imposition ...
... once the power of the Protestant interest , the shibboleth by which squires and rectors distinguished those whom they loved from those whom they hated ; we forget that he defended the Manchester Massacre , the Six Acts , the Imposition ...
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... once requested to have a number of ques- tions carefully written down which they asked him one day in succession in the House of Commons . They seemed a list of everything that could occur in the British Empire , or to the brain of a ...
... once requested to have a number of ques- tions carefully written down which they asked him one day in succession in the House of Commons . They seemed a list of everything that could occur in the British Empire , or to the brain of a ...
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... once , when aided by fluent delivery and pointed language . The habit of discussing questions in this way necessarily reacts on the in- tellects of our ablest men , particularly of those who are intro- duced into parliament at a very ...
... once , when aided by fluent delivery and pointed language . The habit of discussing questions in this way necessarily reacts on the in- tellects of our ablest men , particularly of those who are intro- duced into parliament at a very ...
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... Once , when they were opposed on a railway bill , the keen irascibility of Lord Derby stimulated him to observe that no one knew like the right honourable baronet how to dress up a case for that House . ' The art of statement , the ...
... Once , when they were opposed on a railway bill , the keen irascibility of Lord Derby stimulated him to observe that no one knew like the right honourable baronet how to dress up a case for that House . ' The art of statement , the ...
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الصفحة 100 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
الصفحة 250 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
الصفحة 137 - in the room of the Right Honourable William Pitt, who, since his election, has accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
الصفحة 38 - This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.
الصفحة 298 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
الصفحة 75 - I WAITED for the train at Coventry ; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires ; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this : — Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past; not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well And loathed to see them...
الصفحة 274 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the...
الصفحة 249 - Upon this subject he followed the plan that seems to be suggested by Montesquieu; endeavouring to trace the gradual progress of jurisprudence, both public and private, from the rudest to the most refined ages, and to point out the effects of those arts which contribute to subsistence, and to the accumulation of property, in producing correspondent improvements or alterations in law and government.
الصفحة 284 - The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans, or the English, which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created.